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12-letter words containing s, c, r, e

  • courtesy car — a car that is lent to c customer by a garage or insurance company
  • couscoussier — A double-chambered steamer used to prepare couscous.
  • cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
  • coxey's army — Jacob Sechler [sech-ler] /ˈsɛtʃ lər/ (Show IPA), 1854–1951, U.S. political reformer: led a group of unemployed marchers (Coxey's army) in 1894 from Ohio to Washington, D.C., to petition Congress for legislation to create jobs and relieve poverty.
  • coxless four — a boat for four oarsman and no cox
  • cradleboards — Plural form of cradleboard.
  • craftspeople — Craftspeople are people who make things skilfully with their hands.
  • craftsperson — an artisan
  • craniotomies — Plural form of craniotomy.
  • crash course — A crash course in a particular subject is a short course in which you are taught basic facts or skills, for example before you start a new job.
  • crash helmet — A crash helmet is a helmet that motorcyclists wear in order to protect their heads if they have an accident.
  • crassamentum — a blood clot
  • crassulacean — as in crassulacean acid metabolism, a method of photosynthesis
  • crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
  • cream cheese — Cream cheese is a very rich, soft white cheese.
  • cream sherry — a full-bodied sweet sherry
  • creationists — Plural form of creationist.
  • creativeness — having the quality or power of creating.
  • creativities — the state or quality of being creative.
  • credibleness — The state or quality of being credible.
  • credit sales — sales for which the customer does not need to pay immediately
  • credit score — A borrower's credit score is a number calculated by a credit bureau to express how likely they are to be able to pay back their loans.
  • credit terms — the terms and conditions under which an institution extends credit to a person
  • cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
  • crematoriums — Plural form of crematorium.
  • crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
  • crepusculous — Alternative form of crepuscular.
  • crescendoing — Music. a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force. a musical passage characterized by such an increase. the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt.
  • crested iris — a low iris, Iris cristata, of the eastern and central U.S., having faintly fragrant, yellow-crested, lilac-dotted flowers.
  • crime-buster — a law officer who specializes in fighting large-scale organized crime
  • criminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of criminalize.
  • criminalness — (rare, dated) The state or quality of being criminal.
  • criosphinxes — Plural form of criosphinx.
  • crisscrossed — crossed over each other
  • crisscrosses — Plural form of crisscross.
  • cristobalite — a white microcrystalline mineral consisting of silica and occurring in volcanic rocks. Formula: SiO2
  • criticalness — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • criticisable — Alternative form of criticizable.
  • crookes lens — a type of lens, used in sunglasses, that is made from glass containing cerium. It reduces the transmission of ultraviolet radiation
  • crookes tube — a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas
  • crop sprayer — a device for spraying crops
  • crospovidone — Crospovidone is a substance used in tablets as a binder or disintegrant.
  • cross potent — a cross with equal arms, each of which ends in a bar
  • cross street — a street running at right angles to a major thoroughfare
  • cross stroke — the horizontal line through the vertical of a t or f.
  • cross volley — (in tennis) a volley across the court
  • cross-bearer — a person who carries or holds a cross, especially in a religious procession.
  • cross-bedded — having irregular laminations, as strata of sandstone, inclining in various directions not coincident with the general stratification.
  • cross-border — Cross-border trade occurs between companies in different countries.
  • cross-garnet — a hinge with a long horizontal strap fixed to the face of a door and a short vertical leaf fixed to the door frame
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